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I've been trying to keep up with the thread and skim through the articles that have been linked (really, thank you all so much for the hard work you put in)!
I'm just wondering if I've missed if they said anything about family/relationships/romances and the modern day stuff? (CAN WE OFF LAYLA?????? )
Also, I see that computer have been brought up so I'd like to ask about what I *just* ordered and get your opinions on it, pls I hope it's going to be enough!
I thought my current computer just turned 4 in January, but turns out it was 5 years ago I bought it. It struggled a bit with Odyssey and Greedfall so I thought it might be time to trade up before the next round of new stuffs.
I'll try to check back in later on today
That's odd. I've a i7-8700, geforce 1080ti (I refused the 2070 in 2017 when it was offered; I thought it was too soon and it was expensive. Turned out I was right to refuse it because a slew of problems cropped up for those who owned it then). 16 gb ram, same number of ssds. Psu is 800w. I've relatively no problems with ACOD and Greedfall but then, I didn't go for ultra settings in everything for ACOD. Greedfall yes.
What I have under spoiler tags is my new computer that hasn't arrived yet (it comes next week I think). The one I'm currently running is an i7-4790k/16 gb ram/geforce 970/800 psu/1tb harddrive. I've read that the rtx 2070 super was released last year but *supposed* give close to the 2080 performance *fingers crossed*
Is boating going to be as big as it was in Odyssey? Or used less? I like it okay'ish. Just curious how much it'll be used this time around.
That's odd. I've a i7-8700, geforce 1080ti (I refused the 2070 in 2017 when it was offered; I thought it was too soon and it was expensive. Turned out I was right to refuse it because a slew of problems cropped up for those who owned it then). 16 gb ram, same number of ssds. Psu is 800w. I've relatively no problems with ACOD and Greedfall but then, I didn't go for ultra settings in everything for ACOD. Greedfall yes.
What I have under spoiler tags is my new computer that hasn't arrived yet (it comes next week I think). The one I'm currently running is an i7-4790k/16 gb ram/geforce 970/800 psu/1tb harddrive. I've read that the rtx 2070 super was released last year but *supposed* give close to the 2080 performance *fingers crossed*
Is boating going to be as big as it was in Odyssey? Or used less? I like it okay'ish. Just curious how much it'll be used this time around.
Gee, I need to have eyes checked. I just noticed the emphasis on ordered. What you ordered is great, no worries.
I tend to give new GPUs a "seasoning" period, just so that any problems that crop up will be dealt with by the time I get around to them which is when new cards appear because it meant a price drop for the previous generation cards.
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i7-9700k/geforce rtx 2070 super/32gb ram/500gb ssd/3 tb sata III/1000 watt psu Let me know if I left any important stuff out.
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The setup looks solid. Only thing you should probably know is that the 9700k has no threads and there might be some games (can think of Borderlands 3 at launch) that actually have stutters without a hyperthreading CPU.
Thought that was what you were talking about, mine are Intel Core i7 8700 Hex Core LGA 1151-2 3.20 GHz and with Odyssey they seem to be all over the place ranging from 50% to 95% regardless of whatever is happening in game!!!!!
Odyssey is like that on all CPUs. Until you get a monitor with better resolution than 1920x1080p, you will not see much difference between your 1070Ti and a better GPU. Maybe just a bit more FPS, but not enough to be worth it, even with a 144hz monitor as yours. And at higher FPS, depending on the game, you will probably get CPU bottlenecked first at that resolution, but probably just slightly.
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Motherboard
The setup looks solid. Only thing you should probably know is that the 9700k has no threads and there might be some games (can think of Borderlands 3 at launch) that actually have stutters without a hyperthreading CPU.
Thought that was what you were talking about, mine are Intel Core i7 8700 Hex Core LGA 1151-2 3.20 GHz and with Odyssey they seem to be all over the place ranging from 50% to 95% regardless of whatever is happening in game!!!!!
Odyssey is like that on all CPUs. Until you get a monitor with better resolution than 1920x1080p, you will not see much difference between your 1070Ti and a better GPU. Maybe just a bit more FPS, but not enough to be worth it, even with a 144hz monitor as yours. And at higher FPS, depending on the game, you will probably get CPU bottlenecked first at that resolution, but probably just slightly.
What's a hyperthreading CPU? The motherboard is ASUS Prime Z390-P ATX.
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i7-9700k/geforce rtx 2070 super/32gb ram/500gb ssd/3 tb sata III/1000 watt psu Let me know if I left any important stuff out.
Motherboard
The setup looks solid. Only thing you should probably know is that the 9700k has no threads and there might be some games (can think of Borderlands 3 at launch) that actually have stutters without a hyperthreading CPU.
Thought that was what you were talking about, mine are Intel Core i7 8700 Hex Core LGA 1151-2 3.20 GHz and with Odyssey they seem to be all over the place ranging from 50% to 95% regardless of whatever is happening in game!!!!!
Odyssey is like that on all CPUs. Until you get a monitor with better resolution than 1920x1080p, you will not see much difference between your 1070Ti and a better GPU. Maybe just a bit more FPS, but not enough to be worth it, even with a 144hz monitor as yours. And at higher FPS, depending on the game, you will probably get CPU bottlenecked first at that resolution, but probably just slightly.
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Wondered if this "It will allow you to unlock abilities to suit your individual playing style." means your levelling for skills will be dependant on what you do and how you do it. That is stealth will become stronger the more you do it, you'll be more proficient with the sword if the sword is what you use the most.
I can't remember what game did that before, not sure if I am a fan or not!!!!!
Wondered if this "It will allow you to unlock abilities to suit your individual playing style." means your levelling for skills will be dependant on what you do and how you do it. That is stealth will become stronger the more you do it, you'll be more proficient with the sword if the sword is what you use the most.
I can't remember what game did that before, not sure if I am a fan or not!!!!!
Quest for Glory did it!
Valhalla is an EGA graphics game; confirmed.
In all seriousness, Kingdom Come Deliverance did this. Not a fan of how it worked in that game.
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Wondered if this "It will allow you to unlock abilities to suit your individual playing style." means your levelling for skills will be dependant on what you do and how you do it. That is stealth will become stronger the more you do it, you'll be more proficient with the sword if the sword is what you use the most.
I can't remember what game did that before, not sure if I am a fan or not!!!!!
There's a few games that progress that way, like Skyrim.
I'm not sure if that's what they're hinting at here, as it'd be a significant change that's not necessarily "better", but we'll see...
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Wondered if this "It will allow you to unlock abilities to suit your individual playing style." means your levelling for skills will be dependant on what you do and how you do it. That is stealth will become stronger the more you do it, you'll be more proficient with the sword if the sword is what you use the most.
I can't remember what game did that before, not sure if I am a fan or not!!!!!
Quest for Glory did it!
Valhalla is an EGA graphics game; confirmed.
In all seriousness, Kingdom Come Deliverance did this. Not a fan of how it worked in that game.
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Thought that was what you were talking about, mine are Intel Core i7 8700 Hex Core LGA 1151-2 3.20 GHz and with Odyssey they seem to be all over the place ranging from 50% to 95% regardless of whatever is happening in game!!!!!
Odyssey is like that on all CPUs. Until you get a monitor with better resolution than 1920x1080p, you will not see much difference between your 1070Ti and a better GPU. Maybe just a bit more FPS, but not enough to be worth it, even with a 144hz monitor as yours. And at higher FPS, depending on the game, you will probably get CPU bottlenecked first at that resolution, but probably just slightly.
saandrig Just re-reading this should I limit the FPS to 60 in game for Odyssey? I have it set at 90 I think ATM in game and 90 in the Nvidia Control panel?
Hey what should I have the power set to in the Nvidia Control Panel? Currently it is at "Optimal" and my power settings in Windows are set to "Balanced".
Choices for Nvidia Control Panel are: "Optimal", "Adaptive" or "Prefer Maximum Power"?
Also should I have the monitor refresh rate set to "Highest Available" or "Application Controlled", Highest available is the default? Under resolution I have it set to 165Hz, did you tell me before to have that lower?
Odyssey is like that on all CPUs. Until you get a monitor with better resolution than 1920x1080p, you will not see much difference between your 1070Ti and a better GPU. Maybe just a bit more FPS, but not enough to be worth it, even with a 144hz monitor as yours. And at higher FPS, depending on the game, you will probably get CPU bottlenecked first at that resolution, but probably just slightly.
saandrig Just re-reading this should I limit the FPS to 60 in game for Odyssey? I have it set at 90 I think ATM in game and 90 in the Nvidia Control panel?
Hey what should I have the power set to in the Nvidia Control Panel? Currently it is at "Optimal" and my power settings in Windows are set to "Balanced".
Choices for Nvidia Control Panel are: "Optimal", "Adaptive" or "Prefer Maximum Power"?
Also should I have the monitor refresh rate set to "Highest Available" or "Application Controlled", Highest available is the default? Under resolution I have it set to 165Hz, did you tell me before to have that lower?
Windows powersettings to High Performance if you have a desktop machine and dont use sleep etc. I've set nVidia also to prefer maximum power as I cannot have powersaving on audio machine
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They used to use these acronyms for graphical quality. EGA, VGA, CGA.
None of them were eye melting.
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The setup looks solid. Only thing you should probably know is that the 9700k has no threads and there might be some games (can think of Borderlands 3 at launch) that actually have stutters without a hyperthreading CPU.
Odyssey is like that on all CPUs. Until you get a monitor with better resolution than 1920x1080p, you will not see much difference between your 1070Ti and a better GPU. Maybe just a bit more FPS, but not enough to be worth it, even with a 144hz monitor as yours. And at higher FPS, depending on the game, you will probably get CPU bottlenecked first at that resolution, but probably just slightly.
What's a hyperthreading CPU? The motherboard is ASUS Prime Z390-P ATX.
It's a virtual CPU core. Most CPUs have them to try and increase their performance. Most CPUs from the past 5 years are something like 4 cores and 4 threads (4c 4t). The thread is not like a real core of course, it's always better to have a real one, but sometimes applications are coded to work better with hyperthreading. It's rare, not to worry and the difference would still be minimal. The 9700k has 8 real cores, which is more than enough for the next 5 years or so.
Odyssey is like that on all CPUs. Until you get a monitor with better resolution than 1920x1080p, you will not see much difference between your 1070Ti and a better GPU. Maybe just a bit more FPS, but not enough to be worth it, even with a 144hz monitor as yours. And at higher FPS, depending on the game, you will probably get CPU bottlenecked first at that resolution, but probably just slightly.
saandrig Just re-reading this should I limit the FPS to 60 in game for Odyssey? I have it set at 90 I think ATM in game and 90 in the Nvidia Control panel?
Hey what should I have the power set to in the Nvidia Control Panel? Currently it is at "Optimal" and my power settings in Windows are set to "Balanced".
Choices for Nvidia Control Panel are: "Optimal", "Adaptive" or "Prefer Maximum Power"?
Also should I have the monitor refresh rate set to "Highest Available" or "Application Controlled", Highest available is the default? Under resolution I have it set to 165Hz, did you tell me before to have that lower?
Usually with a G-sync/compatible monitor you should not limit the FPS more than 3 FPS below your monitor refresh range. Set the "Highest available" monitor refresh rate and in the Nvidia control panel enable the global V-sync. Check what your monitor Freesync range is, usually it is between 48 and 144 FPS. For best results (no screen tearing, minimal ghosting and smoothest picture) you want to limit the FPS to 3 FPS below your monitor's highest point of the Freesync range. If it is 144, limit it to 141 for example (it's so in order to always be in the range of the G-sync/Freesync as sometimes if the FPS jumps above the monitor's refresh rate/sync range, the sync would stop working and you may get screen tearing, etc. However with modern games and ultra settings you probably won't manage that high FPS anyway).
In Odyssey's case it doesn't matter if you limit the FPS to 90 or 140. As long as the G-sync/Freesync is enabled, it's all the same. 60 FPS seems too low, you definitely can get more than that at 1080p. If you have the Global V-sync enabled in Nvidia Control panel, you don't need to limit the FPS with the ingame tools. if you wnat to limit a game's FPS, doing it in the Nvidia Control Panel is enough.
"Balanced" setting is fine. With your PSU issues though you probably don't want to use "Prefer Maximum Power". You may give it a shot with "Power Saver" to see if there is any difference at all (there shouldn't be any for the PSU, but who knows).
It is a pretty good write up and for what I am wanting in an Assassin's Creed game they seem to be going in the right direction, but I know there are going to be people that are disappointed. I think its the same thing BioWare needs to do as well with their games is to know they are going to disappoint people no matter what direction they go and not try and make everyone happy with what they are making.
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So I am sorry this is off topic but it is where I have been discussing my PC issues.
Thanks to those that have helped and it has definitely been diagnosed as a PSU issue with errors in two of the voltage read-outs, "+12V2" and "PG". Thanks to those that helped with the identification and with the settings discussions.
Now to fight the retailer into giving me a refund and to see if I can find a new one as stock here due to Covid is scarce.
So I am sorry this is off topic but it is where I have been discussing my PC issues.
Thanks to those that have helped and it has definitely been diagnosed as a PSU issue with errors in two of the voltage read-outs, "+12V2" and "PG". Thanks to those that helped with the identification and with the settings discussions.
Now to fight the retailer into giving me a refund and to see if I can find a new one as stock here due to Covid is scarce.
Thank the maker.. uh.. something.. it was PSU then. Hope it hasnt made anything wrong for the rest of the hardware. I had one PSU going bad and it actually killed 40GB of my 160GB HDD. That part was never accessible anymore with any tools after the computer crashed hard and didnt start anymore with the old PSU.
Anyway good luck I bet nowadays the hardware is better than in the early 00's.
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So I am sorry this is off topic but it is where I have been discussing my PC issues.
Thanks to those that have helped and it has definitely been diagnosed as a PSU issue with errors in two of the voltage read-outs, "+12V2" and "PG". Thanks to those that helped with the identification and with the settings discussions.
Now to fight the retailer into giving me a refund and to see if I can find a new one as stock here due to Covid is scarce.
Thank the maker.. uh.. something.. it was PSU then.
He was really trying to convince me it's just a regular game issue I smell bad PSUs an Australian mile away!